Although speech is the most natural form of communication between humans, most people find using speech to communicate with machines anything but natural. Drawing from psychology, human-computer interaction, linguistics, and communication theory, Practical Speech User Interface Design provides a comprehensive yet concise...
The goal of this book is to provide an overview of the current state of knowledge of educational
data mining (EDM). The primary goal of EDM is to use large-scale educational data
sets to better understand learning and to provide information about the learning process.
Although researchers have been studying human learning for over a...
Approximation methods are of vital importance in many challenging applications
from computational science and engineering. This book collects papers
from world experts in a broad variety of relevant applications of approximation
theory, including pattern recognition and machine learning, multiscale modelling
of fluid flow, metrology,...
Our interest in human–computer interaction started with our participation in the TT2
project (“Trans–Type-2”, 2002–2005—http://www.tt2.atosorigin.es), funded by the
European Union (EU) and coordinated by Atos Origin, which dealt with the development
of statistical-based technologies for computer...
In the early days of pattern recognition and statistical data analysis life was
rather simple: datasets were relatively small, collected from well-designed experiments,
analyzed using a few methods that had good theoretical background.
Explosive growth of the use of computers led to the creation of huge amounts of
data of all kinds,...
Making a robot that looks and behaves like a human being has been the subject of many
popular science fiction movies and books. Although the development of such a robot
faces many challenges, the making of a virtual human has long been potentially possible.
With recent advances in various key technologies related to hardware and...
Information is the lifeblood of knowledge, the flotsam of events and perspectives
created in every second of history. There is so much to capture and yet so little
time and so few resources to make sense of it all. Just as we get tantalisingly
close, the holy grail of true knowledge slips further over the horizon.
Natural language processing is often called an "Al-complete" task, in the sense that in order to truly process language (i.e. to comprehend, to translate, to generate) full understanding is required, which is itself the ultimate goal of Artificial Intelligence. For those who seek solutions to practical problems, this is not a...
Cognitive spatial concepts are qualitative in nature, i.e., they are based not so
much on exact quantities but on comparisons between perceived magnitudes.
We develop a qualitative model for the representation of spatial knowledge (in
particular, of positional information about 2-dimensional projections) that is
based only on locative...
While books and journals of high quality have proliferated in discrete and compu-
tational geometry during recent years, there has been to date no single reference
work fully accessible to the nonspecialist as well as to the specialist, covering all
the major aspects of both fields. The Handbook of Discrete and Computational
Geometry...
The important role that discrete structures plays in computer science is gaining recognition.
Computing Curricula 2001 (CC2001), the latest curriculum recommendation for computer-
related education, was a joint undertaking of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic
Engineers/Computer Society (IEEE/CS) and the Association for...
It is appropriate that I first acknowledge my appreciation to Professor Leo Grigsby for inviting me to
prepare the chapter on power transformers for the first edition (2001) of his now very popular Electric
Power Engineering Handbook. From this evolved the recognition that two chapters from the 2001
Handbook, those for (1) substations...
